§ 15-5-2 - Additional grounds for divorce. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 15-5-2

   § 15-5-2  Additional grounds for divorce.– Divorces from the bond of marriage shall also be decreed for the followingcauses:

   (1) Impotency;

   (2) Adultery;

   (3) Extreme cruelty;

   (4) Willful desertion for five (5) years of either of theparties, or for willful desertion for a shorter period of time in thediscretion of the court;

   (5) Continued drunkenness;

   (6) The habitual, excessive, and intemperate use of opium,morphine, or chloral;

   (7) Neglect and refusal, for the period of at least one yearnext before the filing of the petition, on the part of the husband to providenecessaries for the subsistence of his wife, the husband being of sufficientability; and

   (8) Any other gross misbehavior and wickedness, in either ofthe parties, repugnant to and in violation of the marriage covenant.